Service Quotes

~ Reading (or serving) without reflecting is like eating without digesting - Edmund Burke

~ You cannot travel on the path until you have become the path itself. - Buddha

~ It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. –Confucius

~ All…are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny…I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

~ Teach me, and I will forget. Show me, and I will remember. Involve me, and I will understand. –An old Chinese Proverb

~ Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. –Richard Bach

~ Every time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. –Robert F. Kennedy

~ I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I still can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. –Helen Keller

~ Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. –Albert Einstein

~ Service…Giving what you don’t have to give, Giving when you don’t need to give, Giving because you want to give. –Damien Hess

~ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. –Elie Wiesel

~ If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. –Catherine Aird

~ When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. –Rachel Naomi Remen

~ Be the change that you want to see in the world. –Gandhi

~ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. –Margaret Mead

~ Although social change cannot come overnight, we must always work as though it were a possibility in the morning. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

~ I slept and dreamt that life was pleasure; I woke and saw that life was service; I served and discovered that service was pleasure. –Rabindranath Tagore

~ This country will not be a good place for any of us to live unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. –Theodore Roosevelt

~ If you think you’re too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. –Bette Reese

~ The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit in. –Nelson Henderson

~ Service to others is the rent we pay for living on this planet. –Marian Wright Edelman

~ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

~ In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. –Marianne Williamson

~ But where was I to start? The world is so vast. I shall start with the country I now best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town too is large. I had better start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind. I shall start with myself. –Adrianna Huffington